Elder Scroll IV: Oblivion
What can I say…. We’re playing it right now instead of recording the podcast. I am sorry, it’s very awesome though. Fear not, we will record soon.
Episode 6 of the Unsayable Podcast is now available for download. This week we interview Justin Chow, one of the top rated Madden players in the country, and robots, more and more robots.
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“Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have published findings that show, for the first time, that bone cells can grow and proliferate on a scaffold of carbon nanotubes. Bone cells appear as a clump at left, carbon nanotubes appear on the right. (Image courtesy of University of California - Riverside) The paper, titled Bone Cell Proliferation on Carbon Nanotubes, appears in the March 8 edition of Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society. Lead author, Laura Zanello, is an assistant professor of biochemistry at UCR and was joined by UCR colleagues, graduate students Bin Zhao and Hui Hu, and Robert C. Haddon, distinguished professor of chemistry and of chemical and environmental engineering.”
We’ve had some success in the scientific world in coaxing some parts of the body to grow in the lab, but bone material has proven a very tricky feat. It looks like these researchers have made quite a breakthrough, and hopefully this will lead to not only replacing missing bone material, but strengthening existing bone. Whether you’re old, or merely undergoing cybernetic augmentation, this research may yield amazing results.
Read the whole story on Science Daily
The Spitzer Space telescope has captured this false color image of Galaxy Messier 82 in all it’s smoking glory. The bright red halo around the galaxy is a massive cloud of dust and gas that would normally be floating quietly in the plane of the galaxy itself. However, a furious burst of star formation at the center of the galaxy, and interactions with an even larger galaxy nearby have caused this outflux of material.Note: This dust is only visible in the infrared spectrum, thus the false color image.
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Well, DARPA is at it again and this time instead of sharks we’re trying to control insects. Why would you want to be able to control an insect? It’s cool, obviously. Seriously though, the idea would be to introduce small control circuitry into the insects during the larval stage when the insect would be able to safely integrate a foriegn object into it’s body, and use this MEM to control the movements of the insect and receive sensor readings from it. Will it work? Maybe. Should we be doing it? Probably not. Will we do it anyways? Absolutely. Read the full story on the BBC.
Episode 5 of the Unsayable Podcast is now available for download. Jason and Chris are once again saying the unsayable and this week we have shark zombies, titanic explosions, and robot dogs. Enjoy!
Stories for this week’s show include:
In a recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Chicago, the genomes of 209 unrelated individuals from various different ethnic groups were analyzed. The result of this study concluded that each population had roughly 250 positively selected genes, the types of genes themselves varying from group to group. The theory of natural selection holds that traits that give an organism a survival advantage are propagated to further generations because the organisms not blessed with the helpful genes tend to not survive to produce offspring. These findings confirm what common sense would tell you, namely that human beings, like all forms of life on planet earth are constantly genetically adapting to changes in the environment. It leads one to wonder, what will a human being look in 100,000 years, or 1,000,000?
Read the full story on Fox News
Researchers at Yale have overcome hurdles to create a functioning network of blood vessels that are capable of delivering oxygen to the smallest components of the body. Using a scaffolding created from a macroporous hydrogel polymer seeded with endothelial and nerve brain cells, they were able to coax the formation of the vessels from these components. This kind of research will go a long way to toward treating patients with nerve damage and opens new possibilites for studying how the body encourages and repels nerve growth.
Read the full story on ScienceDaily.
Mother of God, was this one really necessary? Your tax dollars have allowed scienctists funded by DARPA to implant electronics into the brains of sharks that allow two way communication. The scientists can recieve feedback on what the shark is experiencing, and also issue commands to the shark to elicit a desired behavior. I’m waffling over whether this is possibly the most awesome thing ever invented, or an invention with almost no redeeming value. Well, no redeeming value other than the fact you could control an army of zombie sharks to do your evil bidding. Sometime I think that the majority of advanced military R&D is mainly focused on bringing the ideas of the film world’s best villians to life.
Thanks to oz for letting me know about this.
Read the full story on New Scientist
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